Applicants are invited for a temporary 10 month appointment as UCD Craig Dobbin Full Professor of Canadian Studies, UCD College of Arts and Humanities. Note: The successful candidate will be expected to commence in post on 1 September 2018.

The Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies was instituted from an endowment made to University College Dublin by Dr Craig Dobbin. The post is designed to promote Canadian Studies in UCD and the wider academic community in Ireland. The successful candidate will have a significant track record of teaching and research, at a senior level, relating to Canada in a discipline that is represented within the UCD College of Arts and Humanities. Preference will be given to a candidate whose research interests will enhance current research programmes within UCD and research links between UCD and Canada.

Full Professor Salary Scale: €110,060 to €139,501 per annum.

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 17:00hrs (Irish Local Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

Canadian Studies has (limited) travel funding available for Berkeley faculty and students presenting at the upcoming conferences detailed below. Please contact the hosting organizations directly with conference submission and information inquiries. Please contact Elliott Smith at elliott.smith@berkeley.edu for travel funding inquiries.

Call for papers

Identities and Security in the transborder zone between Quebec, Canada and the United States

In the wake of 9/11, the US-Canada border that had been deemed as the most pacified border in the world, appeared under a new light in security, trade and societal discourses. When the Canadian government announced in 2015 that Canada would welcome almost 25 000 Syrian refugees, the decision was seen as a potential risk in the US, mainly because of this 8891km of common border. With the inauguration of the new administration, NAFTA renegotiations and the influx of migrants at the border, as well as immigration related policy changes, the very meaning of the US-Canada border is changing. And these evolutions of the vision of the border are not without impacts on the local scale. New measures taken under the new administration have had profound impacts on border communities. New challenges arise, in terms of impacts of a tighten security on daily life in the borderlands, negotiation of identities in transborder communities, environmental cooperation, commercial relations… This panel aims at assessing the impact of the new administration on the US/Canada border, identities reshaped in redefined border communities. We are also delving into how local and State-level cooperation transcend the changes made to the border at the national level and the remaining specificities of the Quebec/US border and borderlands.

Your paper proposal must include:

– Your name, titles and affiliations

– A title

– A 250 words abstract

Please submit your paper proposal by email to Andréanne Bissonnette at andreanne.ob@gmail.com by November 10, 2017 at 5pm.

Le 21e colloque bisannuel de l’ACQS

The 21st biennial conference of the ACQS

du 1er au 4 novembre 2018à l’Intercontinental New Orleans, LA

The American Council for Québec Studies invites proposals for papers and panels for our upcoming conference in November 2018. If the conference theme is open to a wide range of approaches across the Social Sciences and Humanities, our hope is to underscore the multiplicities of the relations that mark, form, and enrich the French and

Francophone Americas. We are particularly pleased to host our convention in the city of New Orleans as it celebrates its 300th anniversary as a site of crossroads that are witness to multiple transformations, transfers, and identifications.

We welcome and will consider proposals related to any aspect of Québec studies. Submissions of both individual papers and complete panels are encouraged. Please consult our website (www.acqs.org) for more details on the conference as well as on the mini-colloquium focused on Francophone Louisiana’s International Relations to be held

To post a panel description on the ACQS website in order to solicit abstracts: Send the title of your proposed session and a short description (+/- 250 words), as well as your name, affiliation, and contact information to Susan Pinette, Vice-President, at spinette@maine.edu.

To submit a complete session: Each presenter should submit abstracts individually, indicating the full session’s title and its chair where requested.The ACQS is happy to announce a discounted group rate at the centrally located Intercontinental New Orleans.

A link for reservations will be posted on the ACQS website in Spring 2018.

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